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by goldfeld 14y ago
Precisely what I was thinking. Rather than assuming the what people have read, simply give less importance to upvotes made to a top comment than to those made to comments below. I think it would also have to be logarithmic, because being th
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by goldfeld 14y ago
My own vim-seek was created for navigating long sentences easily; criticmarkup is a superset of markdown for cuts and other edits, which I ported to vim. And vimroom offers a IA Writer-inspired experience. For what Scrivener and outliners o
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by goldfeld 14y ago
And it comes with the added benefit of making one able to read ancient literature in it's original form. Thanks for the link, fascinating stuff that such a language would be the perfect match for AI. Stranger than fiction.
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by goldfeld 14y ago
Hacker News would be a much better place if everyone would hang around on New for a couple minutes just to upvote every genuine Show HN. I may not have a use for it, but someone might, and most hackers showing their stuff on here get no eye
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by goldfeld 14y ago
How about actual prose? With the right plugins Vim is the best article/book authoring tool I've found.
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by goldfeld 14y ago
Dear God, we're talking about what programmers spend the majority of their working hours using, for the foreseeable future. I suppose you never learn new programming languages, because god forbid, you're gonna be crippled for some time gett
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by goldfeld 14y ago
Have you seen matches.js? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4516576
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by goldfeld 14y ago
The increased line-height bothers me quite a bit, it seems to detract from readability.
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by goldfeld 14y ago
Maybe simply because hackathons have a certain focus on competition, whereas this is more concerned with the process than the end result.
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by goldfeld 14y ago
The analogy to software is a good one. Often the software is shipped full, and you unlock features as you pay for.
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by goldfeld 14y ago
Or you could just use CoffeeScript.
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by goldfeld 14y ago
Change the world for the better? Facebook? I'm sure ads a-plenty and the relationship with Zynga were all ploys to make the world a much better place for all.
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by goldfeld 14y ago
Comparing touch typing to touch keyboards is quite a stretch, pardon the pun.
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by goldfeld 14y ago
I have been coding CoffeeScript for a while and slowly got rid of it's parentheses down to doing `do someFunction`. When I learned about Clojure and got excited to learn it (but haven't yet), I also gradually shifted my aesthetics to using
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by goldfeld 14y ago
Great, just what we needed, more flooding of the 'new' section so no worthy Show HN survives.
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by goldfeld 14y ago
Then that puts you in a position to achieve fulfillment at an earlier age and with less risk than most twenty-something startuppies dreaming of an exit most won't ever get. Even though you're a dreamer, keeping realistic expectations and fi
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by goldfeld 14y ago
Yes, I've since let go of the thought of leaving Gmail. Pretty fun read too http://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/08/07/1533224/ask-slashdot-... "The thing is, unlike a lot of other parts of life, mail hosting is basically a sewer of pain."
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by goldfeld 14y ago
Regarding quality of life, this may be my personal standard but I consider it highly relevant. I would think a company like RedHat would undergo a lot of pressure from big clients, and that does not amount to quality of life for me, especia
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by goldfeld 14y ago
Wow, are those really the state of art? I can already feel my inner hacker wanting to do a Node based alternative.
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by goldfeld 14y ago
Are you considering what the GP said, i.e. builds of popular browsers; or another browser entirely? I've been using Luakit a lot recently and it stands for a lot of the open and tweakable traits I care about in software. It probably comes w
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by goldfeld 14y ago
I've been thinking about dumping Gmail for a few days now. What are good web-based alternatives, with an even better interface, that I can run locally and have it connect to a server on Heroku or something like that? I feel like I have reli
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by goldfeld 14y ago
Exactly. When every other startup relies on ad revenue, they're nothing but furthering the goals of big corporations and big media.
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by goldfeld 14y ago
I see this as part of a bigger problem, which is a lack of gusto in Sillicon Valley. People aren't striving to solve problems deeply meaningful to themselves, they are looking for the next big buck in social/local/corny. Others are just as
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by goldfeld 14y ago
On absolute terms I'd think so, considering how many more kids have access to technology today. But if you compare the percentage of kids who get into technology's guts, out of all kids with access to it, I think that number has been decrea
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by goldfeld 14y ago
I decided I like this guy a lot by the projects he has under his belt. Always nice to see a prolific open source contributor getting financial support out in the open like this. And this project seems like something I could use in the futur
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by goldfeld 14y ago
Damn, I read that as in "How to program cheat sheets." This is cool. That would be awesome.
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by goldfeld 14y ago
And/or personal fulfillment? Maybe not everyone likes the consulting or employed work that would earn the hourly rate. Plus it isn't scalable. Granted, the chance of the book breaking even may be slim, but it affords one to dream and to do
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by goldfeld 14y ago
The implicit conclusion from both of your points is that the government should be able to select fucking great people like you over others to offer affordable housing to. Sounds like a recipe to dystopia.
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by goldfeld 14y ago
Exactly, and that's the key, and why I'm always excited for initiatives to create more gender balance in the field. We sure are missing out on half of humanity's perspective by having women so dramatically under represented. And if engineer
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by goldfeld 14y ago
One more language with a C syntax, how so exciting. If for nothing else, I love Lua for taking all the good simplicity out of Python and meshing it with a functional approach and everything is a table. Arguing over syntax aesthetics might b

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